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Art. IX.—The Sects of the Buddhists

1891; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0035869x00021109

1474-0591

T. W. Rhys Davids,

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We find in the Dīpavamsa (Chapter V. 39–48) a list of the eighteen sects (or schools rather) into which the Buddhists in India had, in the course of the second century of the Buddhist era, been divided. In the Mahāvamsa (Chapter V.) there is a similar list, evidently drawn from the same sources, but omitting (in Tumour's texts) numbers 1–7 of the older list. It is curious that precisely where these names ought to come in (at line 5), the text given by Tumour is evidently corrupt, a half-sloka at least being missing, and probably more.